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The Tripartite Pact, also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940 by Saburo Karusu of Japan, Hitler of Nazi Germany, and Count Ciano, foreign minister of Italy entering as a military alliance and officially founding the Axis Powers of World War 2 that opposed the Allied Powers.